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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
Jiang's preferred theory is that Sumerian was a Creole language invented by a melting pot of cultures and languages, analogous to Mandarin as a palace language created for communication among many groups.
"...of cultures and languages. Okay? And it's very similar to the Mandarin we speak today. Right? Where Mandarin didn't exist. But because you had..."
"...uh all right megs cheese says hi nate impressed by your mandarin i shouldn't be though you ever need any german translation count me..."
"...little bit with that i didn't tell him i could speak mandarin before uh before we did the show so i think he was..."
"...says, I hope you make a short clip of you speaking Mandarin. It was quite surprising. You're the first I've seen to do do..."
"But as someone who can speak Mandarin, I can very clearly hear his accent. So, OK, Jesus Christ, man. Also, like, what is he..."
"...started to search for my cultural roots. I started to learn Mandarin, Chinese, and I started to think about going back to China. And..."
"So you know, China, the Mandarin is Zhongguo, which means Middle Kingdom. And the idea is that China is a center of the universe...."
"...Kushner's and even got Trump's uh children or like they take Mandarin class and they recited town poetry to President Xi when he visited..."
"...Trump introduced presidency to his family and his grandchildren are learning Mandarin, they can recite, you know, tongue poetry, you know, and I can't..."
"...the educated to rule not soldiers not priests but scholar officials mandarins okay so this is so the idea of Confucianism is that it's..."
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
The interview opens with Jiang's method and then keeps testing it across one pressure system.
China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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